IMDb rating:In his first TV role in almost 30 years, Richard Gere plays a rich and powerful businessman who owns media outlets across the world. His son, played by Billy Howle, is part of this family affair, running one of his dad’s British papers. He’s supposed to the next in line to daddy’s media empire, but he’s got some bad habits that could bring down everything his father has built.
The Guardian said: “On paper, it smacks of quality and potential. What I didn’t see coming was the extent to which it is, beneath its theatre royalty and expensive suits, completely and utterly cuckoo. It is all such a lot. Gere is perfectly inscrutable as Max, who blasts fear and power into every room he enters, stunning everyone in his radius into temporary paralysis. Max is in London because a general election is imminent. ‘Are you here to pick a prime minister or deal with your son?’ asks Lauren, his Rebekah Brooks-ish right-hand woman. The answer, of course, is both – though the political machinations involve better conversations about biscuits.”